Intel Capital vice-president and managing director Keith Larson has announced his retirement, ending a career at the unit that spanned more than 22 years.

One of GCV's 2019 Rising Stars, Andrea Course, has left her venture principal position at Schlumberger to take on the same role at Shell Ventures.

JLL Spark has appointed Eric Wittman, former chief operating officer of Figma, as chief growth officer to help develop its portfolio of proptech startups.

Frederic Hanika, formerly head of M&A and corporate ventures at Software AG, will lead industrial IoT technology developer Wind River's corporate development team.

Saint-Gobain has appointed a former investment director of performance materials at M Ventures, Sven Harmsen, as director of external ventures for its Nova subsidiary.

Steve McGrath, who headed Shell Ventures' Asia Pacific activities for two years, has joined Mach49 as a Singapore-based managing director to help corporates in the region launch venture capital funds.

Katherine Ku has taken on a board position at University of Utah Research Foundation in addition to her existing appointment as chief licensing adviser at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati.

Tom Risch has been appointed permanent executive director and vice-provost for research and tech transfer for Arkansas State University’s branch of the Arkansas Biosciences Institute.

M12 founding member and principal Priya Saiprasad has departed to boost venture capital firm Mayfield Fund's business-to-business investment activities.

Sohaib Mir has earned a promotion to principal having joined Cambridge Innovation Capital to provide business expertise in the life science space in 2014.